Can you reflect on your personal reactions to working or interacting with children or adolescents who have disfiguring birth defects or disabilities due to injury? What personal issues must you be aware of when first meeting?

a) A teenager who endured a traumatic brain injury in an automobile accident and who now has severe facial and upper-body scarring?

b) A child who was born paralyzed?

c) Can you differentiate the effect that disorders have on disabled children and adolescents?

d) Describe how counselors must be genuinely sensitive to personal reactions and responses before encountering clients with physical evidence of injury.

300 words or more with scholarly reference.